Gastronomy
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Unusual, bulbous lump that grows under the ground, unusual shapes and intense aroma - it is a truffle. This rare and expensive mushrooms that grow in the fertile Istrian soil is a real culinary delicacy. Istrian white truffle is one of the most esteemed in the world. Truffles are found ancient Romans and before the 18th century. At the time five centuries long rule of Venice, is the Motovun forests called Forest St.. Brand, and it is only individuals were allowed to hunt truffles. Local rulers, and the arrival of the Austro-Hungarian truffle is brought only to one destination - the Viennese court. However, until today was held as a gastronomic delights, just as he is still not defined for table: if the food or just spice? Cooks agree only in one - truffle is the culmination of gastronomy. Strange is it, mystified and hidden under ground onion. No overhead plants and man ga can be found only with the help of specially dresiranih dogs. Research, our heart-shaped peninsula, there are two types of land, intense crimson in the coastal region and the gray, greasy, glinastu in the central part. Truffle growing very gray in that country, and the epicenter is in vla?noj Motovun forest which runs the river Mirna. Tartufarska zone extends to the northeast to the town of Buzet and Lupoglav and goes southeast along the small Raša in the region of Labin and Pazin and its surroundings to the south. ALLOCATION OF TRUFFLES The division of truffles in a variety of types is based primarily on morphological characteristics such as shape, size, color, ornaments, and look torus peridije, smell and taste. Currently in the world there are 63 types of fungi classified as Tuber. Only nine of the 25 species that grow in Italy and Istria edible, while the sales are usually 4 types (*). White truffle 15.09. - 31.01. Tuber magnatum * 15.01. - 15.05. Tuber borchii 15.01. - 15.04. Tuber asa 01.09. - 31.12. Tuber maculatum Black truffle 01.11. - 15.03. Tuber melanosporum * 01.10. - 15.03. Tuber brumale * 01.05. - 31.10. Tuber aestivum * 01.09. - 30.04. Tuber mesentericum 01.08. - 31.12. Tuber macrosporum 01.09. - 31.03. Tuber uncinatum * Common truffles in Istria gastronomy |
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